INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION AND CONTAINERAZATION

1. The Nature of Intermodalism

All modes look the other way as its competitors, and have seen the level of suspicion and mistrust. Carriers are trying to retain business and increase revenue by maximizing the distance line under their control. Each mode, especially airlines that operate them, has sought to exploit its own advantages in terms of cost, service, reliability and safety.

Intermodal transportation. Movement of passengers or goods from one mode of transport to another, usually occur at specific terminals for any purpose. In North America, intermodal term is also used to refer to the container rail transport.

Sending all transportation. Movement of passengers or freight transport in the same way. Although "pure" diffusion transport rarely exists and intermodal operations often required (eg: ship to the dockside to ship ) , the aim is to ensure continuity in the same public transport network .

2. Intermodalism form

Intermodalism emergence was brought in part by technology and the need for transportation management units such as containers, swap bodies, pallets or semi -trailer. In the past , the palette is a common management unit , but its relatively small size and lack of a protective frame made ​​their intermodal handling labor -intensive and vulnerable to damage or theft. Techniques and better management unit to transfer goods from one mode to another has facilitated exchanges between modes. An early example of piggyback (TOFC: Trailers on Flat Car ) , in which trailer truck parked on the train, and hit (a lighter on board), where river barges placed directly on board the ship sea .

3. Containerization

Container. A metal box the size of a large standard into a full cargo for shipment aboard specially configured mode of transport. It is designed to move with the normal operation of equipment enabling high-speed inter-modal transfer in large economic units between ships, railcars, truck chassis, and barges using a minimum of labor. The former, therefore, serves as a unit instead of load cargo contained therein. The size of the box reference is 20 feet , 20 feet long , 8'6 " feet tall and 8 feet wide, or 1Twenty foot Equivalent Units ( TEUs ) . Since most of the former is now forty feet long, term Forty foot Equivalent Unit (FEU) is also used , but are less common .

Containerization . Referring to the increasing use of general and container as support for freight transportation. It involves a process in which intermodal containers that are increasingly used because it is either a replacement cargo from another vehicle, received in support of the distribution of goods or modes absorb more space transportation system is able to handle containers.

4. Advantages and Challenges of Containerization

• Warehouse. Former limit the risk of damage to goods it brings because it is resistant to shocks and weather conditions. Packaging products containing Therefore, it is easier, cheaper and can occupy less volume. This will reduce the cost of insurance since the cargo is less susceptible to damage during transport. In addition, the former fit together to allow stacking on board, the train (doubles tacking ) and on the ground. It is possible to superimpose three and six empty containers loaded on the ground. The former is a consequence warehouse itself.

• Security. Contents of the container are anonymous to outsiders because it can only be opened at the origin, the customs and the destination. Grazing, especially precious commodity, thus substantially reduced, resulting in lower insurance premiums. Theft is a serious issue in port before containerization as longshoremen have ready access to cargo.

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